News - Yemen: The gas crisis has rapidly expanded in the southern Saudi-UAE occupied provinces and areas, after previously being limited to Aden, Taiz, amid the mercenary government's disregard.

Activists on social media circulated photos, videos on Sunday showing Mukalla residents spending their day in front of gas stations searching for a cylinder.

According to economic experts, the gas crisis in occupied Hadhramout is an extension of the crises affecting Taiz, Aden, Abyan, Lahj, and Shabwa, despite all filling facilities being under the control of the coalition of aggression, the occupation, and its mercenaries in Marib.

They added that the crisis has been ongoing for several days but escalated with the beginning of Ramadan, as demand for household gas increases. They accuse the self-proclaimed director of the gas company in Marib, who is close to the self-proclaimed mercenary governor Sultan Al-Arada, of being behind the crisis for corrupt motives.

For the past two weeks, activists have been circulating images of gas smuggling operations via boats to neighboring countries, in addition to the spread of the black market, where the price of household gas in the occupied provinces has reached nearly 25,000 riyals.

The Saudi-Emirati ambition in Yemen faced a southern awakening, which began on the island of Socotra when thousands protested against turning the island into a dependency of Abu Dhabi. Then came the uprising of the people of Al-Mahra in July, demanding sovereignty over the province and rejecting foreign control over the city. The protests expanded to reach the city of Aden, where the UAE has deployed over thirty thousand local military personnel loyal to them.

Hundreds took to the streets demanding the departure of the "coalition" forces from the south, a situation that analysts have compared to the protests in the 1960s against British presence, which laid the foundation for armed struggle in the south.